Liberals hate intolerance...

...unless it's directed at those fargin' Catholics, all of whose priests are child rapists...

..in which case it's all good.

Some arch-feminist communications director for a Democrat candidate was "eighty-sixed" for what would undoubtedly have been perfectly acceptible speech on the left:

Sarasota Democrat Keith Fitzgerald’s new communications director didn’t last a week.

Fitzgerald announced Monday that newly hired Ana Maria Rosato is no longer working for his congressional campaign after discovering she had written scathing blog posts in the last year that question why “Republicans Hate Sex,” declares that Republicans are the party of rape, and another that criticizes the Pope and his “pious pedophilic protecting priests.”

Rosato created a blog called SassyPoliticalInsights.com, that has posts going back to April, where she often uses crude language and strongly sexual content to criticize Republicans and Tea Party supporters.

The title of the target article emphasizes that Rosato lost her job because of "sexually explicit" posts, but, if so, that's lame and disingenuous. She should have lost her job because she was offensive to and hateful to 25% of the population, i.e., Catholics, although it seems that liberal pieties must never admit that Catholics are a group that it is possible to say anything offensive about.

Here is what Ms. Rosato had to say on her blog:

The pope and his pious pedophilic protecting priests have invented and invoked a Blackmail Beatitude to silence the women in convents across our nation.

And:

Remember, the pope and his pedophilic priests hold the purse strings that feed, clothe, and shelter these women.

And:

If the predator-protecting pope throws them out on the streets, the nuns have no financial means to secure so much as basic housing.

So, it seems that in Rosato's world, all Catholic priests - all of them - are pedophiles, rather than the 2 to 3% that study after study has shown, a percentage less than any other occupation, profession or vocation.

Overgeneralize much?

What would we say about a person who generalized in this way about any other ethnic, racial or gender group?

I don't want to generalize about Democrats, so I won't. What I will say is that this kind of talk appears to be within the mainstream of public discourse among Democrats. When the light shines on them, they toss someone overboard and describe the issue as being "sassy" or "controversial" and don't mention the sheer hateful bigotry that motivates this kind of thing.